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UNTTED STATES ATENT FFICE CHARLES CALVIN READ, OF MANDARIN, FLORIDA.

WATERlNG-POT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,717, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed October 28, 1890. Serial No. 969,615. (No model.) 7

To alt whom it may concern:

Belt known that 1, CHARLES CALVIN READ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mandarin, in the county of Duval and State of Florida. have invented a new and useful \Vatering-Pot, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in watering-pots for use in sprinkling gardens, washing the outside of buildings, distributing poison on plants, &c.

The objects in View are to provide a reser- V011 or pail adapted to be carried by hand, and to combine with the same a simple and efficient pump for throwing the water from the pail, and to accomplish the same without the exercise of undue power and partially by thelwelght of the water within the bucket or par Vith the above objects in'view the inventron consists in certain features of constructron hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figurel is a side elevation of a pump constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse yertical section through the rack-bar and pinion. Fig. 3 is a similar View through the pump-cylinder. Fig. 4: is a bottom plan.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the bucket or pail, of suitable dimensions, and provided with the lifting bail or handle 2 and the removable cover 3, which latter is supplied with a flanged opening 4, covered by a pivoted balanced door 5. At intervals the sides of the bucket or pail are provided with vertical series of loops or keepers 6, in which are loosely mounted a series of supports 7. The supports 7 are bent under the bottom of the bucket and are secured to a standard or post 8, terminating at its lower end in a suitable base 9, in this instance a series of radiating feet.

10 designates the pump-cylinder, which communicates through the bottom of the bucket by means of short pipes 11 and 12, having downwardly-opening valves 13 at their upper ends. Opposite the pipes 11 and 12 pipes lat communicate with the cylinder, and the same merge into a single discharge-pipe 15, bent .side of one of its bearings terminating in a crank arm 22. Loosely connected to the crank-arm is the outer end of a connectingrod 23, the inner end being loosely secured to a U-shaped piston 24:, one. terminal of which is mounted for reciprocation in a depending bracket 25, and the opposite terminal of which reciprocat-es in the cylinder 10, carries a suitably-packed piston-head 27, and is suitably packed itself at the end of the piston.

Two of the adjacent legs or supports 7 are connected by a cross-bar 28, and to the crossbar and one of the supports is secured arackbar 29, adapted to engage and operate the small gear described, which latter is maintained in engagement with the rack bar through the medium of a small coiled spring 30. a

31 designates the thumb-lever mounted in a keeper 32, having its upper end bent and occurring adjacent to the handle of the buck et, and its lower end bent under the bottom and loosely connected with the crank-shaft of the small pinion.

The operation of the invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings; but in order to render the same clear and explicit-the following brief description is given: The pail is filled with water and carried to the point of use, where it is stood upon the ground. By lifting upon the handle of the bucket said bucket is drawn away from the base or support, the rods or supports 7 readily sliding in the keepers. The rack-bar remaining stationary and the gear moving with the bucket, the latter, together with the crank-shaft, is rapidly rotated, and the piston is rapidly reciprocated within the cylinder. The pump is after the character of the well-known double-acting pump and alternately induces water through the pipes 11 and'l-Q into the cylinder and forces the same alternately through the branches 11 of the discharge, and so it is apparent that a steady stream or discharge is maintained, the force of which may be regulated by the violence and poweremployed in moving the bucket up and down. \Vhen the bucket has reached its upstroke, it is then depressed, and the operation is similar to that just described. It Will be observed that the weight of the water in the bucket will serve ordinarily as the means for the return-stroke; but by adding manual pressure to the weight of the water the stream can be forced farther.

From theabove construction it will be seen that I provide an extremely cheap, serviceable, and efficient combined pump and bucket, the pump being located under the bucket, and therefore out of the way and adding but little weight to the device. By the balancedoor, located in the top, the water is prevented from spilling, as from an ordinary bucket connected to a pump.

3y pressing upon the lever 31 the swinging bail may be drawn inwardly and the cog or pinion 21 withdrawn from engagement with the rackbar, so that the pail maybe lifted Without raising the support and the pump operated with the down or up stroke, or merely with the downstroke alone.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. lhe combination, with a bucket,of a base, a pump located under the bucket and communicating with the bucket and provided with a discharge, and connections between the pump-piston and bucket, whereby movement of the bucket upon the base will cause a reciprocation oi: the piston, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a bucket provided with a series of vertically-opposite keepers, of rods mounted in the keepers, extending under the bucket, and secured to a support, a pump-cylinder communicating near its ends with the bucket and provided with a discharge extending up through the side of the bucket, a crankshaft supported under the bueket,a pinion mounted thereon, a rack-bar secured to one of the rods and engaging with the pinion, and aconnecting-rod leadin from the crank of the shaft to the piston-rod of the pump, substantially as specified.

The combination, with the bucket having the handle and the movable cover and provided in its sides with the series of opposite keepers, of rods loosely mounted in the keepers and connected to a suitable base, a d ouble-aeting pump located under the bucket and having a U-slrapcd piston-rod, the outer terminal of which is supported in position in a bracket under the pump, a hinged bail located under the bucket, a crank-shaft journal ed therein, a pitman connecting the crankshaft with the piston-rods, a gear mounted on the shaft, a rack-bar secured to one of the rods and engaging and driving the gear, and a spring for pressing the gear into engagement with the rack-ha r, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the bucket, the pivoted depending hail, the cranked shaft journaled therein, the pinion mounted upon the shaft, the pump-cylinder, and the piston mounted therein and connected to the said crank-shaft, of the standard, the rods projecting therefrom and passed through keepcrs upon the bucket, the rack-bar rigidly connected to the base, and the thumb-lever located and supported at one side of the bucket, bent under the same, and connected at its lower end to the depending pivoted bail, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES CALVIN READ.

Witnesses:

l. D. CASSIDEY, J AS. T. Gannon. 

